desktop sharing with java rmi

Question

i want to write a java rmi application which the server has the ability to share its desktop between several clients. what is its main method to share desktop? is there any where that i find a good sample code for this application?

Answer 1

Use java.awt.Robot (an example here) on the server side to simulate mouse/keyboard events and invoke them from client side.

Answer 2

You could do something like:

new Robot().createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize()));